单词 | wanness |
释义 | wannessn. The state or condition of being wan; †lividity (obsolete): a pale, dead, or sickly colour (of the face), pallidness. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [noun] whitenessOE wanness1382 pallorc1400 lewness1611 bloodlessness1646 exsanguinality1651 pallidness1661 pallidity1691 paledness1702 deadness1760 tallowiness1830 the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > [noun] > paleness bleachc1050 palenessc1350 wanness1382 pallorc1400 whiteness?c1425 palea1547 lightness1552 albescence1742 sickness1849 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. iv. 23 I slowe a man into my wound, and a litle waxen man into my wannesse [L. in livorem meum]. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vii. liv. 268 Wyth to grete holdynge of emeroides comyth..palenesse of face and wannesse and heuynesse of loynes. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 286/2 Wannes of colour, indeur. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Blaimeur palenesse, wannesse, bleakenesse; a dead, or whitish colour. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Lividité, liuiditie, lewnesse, wannesse,..blewishnesse; the colour appearing vpon a stroake, blacke and blew. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 40 The heat of the heart being drawne inward, there appeareth a pale wannesse in the face. 1643 A. Tuckney Balme of Gilead 22 The wannesse of his dead look upon the Crosse. 1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie ii. 180 A pale wandness in the face, as in the Flegmatique. 1771 E. Griffith Hist. Lady Barton III. 275 My wanness was the effect of ill health. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. xliii. 32 In the pale moonlight, which lent a wanness of its own, the delicate face.., the too bright eye,..told their silent tale. 1879 M. E. Braddon Vixen III. iii. 108 There was a faded look about her complexion, too,..a wanness, a yellowness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1382 |
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